Property market
The five-year median is £14,900,000 from 1 recorded sale in MK42 7AP. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Bedford is £329,830 in June 2026, up 4.4% year on year.
MK42 7AP
Kempston South · Bedford · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- MK42 7AP
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 2003
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- MK
- Postcode district
- MK42
- Postcode sector
- MK42 7
- Latitude
- 52.111562
- Longitude
- -0.482289
- British National Grid easting
- 504,028
- British National Grid northing
- 247,000
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Bedford · E06000055
- Electoral ward
- Kempston South · E05014506
- Parish or community
- E04011894
- Westminster constituency
- Bedford · E14001084
- Output area
- E00088433
- Lower layer super output area
- Bedford 018E · E01017517
- Middle layer super output area
- Bedford 018 · E02003633
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore MK42
Property
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Parkwest Retail Interchange Park, Unit 6, Ampthill Road, Kempston, Bedford, MK42 7AP | 30 September 2021 | £14,900,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 54
- Primary
- 30
- Secondary
- 9
- 302 m
Springfield Primary School
Academy converter
- 325 m
Daubeney Academy
Academy converter
- 735 m
Camestone School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,281
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 766
- Shoplifting 404
- Anti social behaviour 244
- Public order 182
- Criminal damage and arson 178
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- MK42 7 residents
- 11,004
Age bands in MK42 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 20.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 30.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 23.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 14.3%
2,315 residents
1,245 residents
3,536 residents
2,722 residents
1,635 residents
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
GP practices
9
within 5 km straight-line
KING STREET SURGERY
273 BEDFORD ROAD, KEMPSTON, BEDFORD, MK42 8QD
ODS code E81038
1.2 km
LONDON ROAD HEALTH CENTRE
84-86 LONDON ROAD, BEDFORD, MK42 0NT
ODS code E81019
2.3 km
QUEENS PARK HEALTH CENTRE
23C CARLISLE ROAD, QUEEN'S PARK, BEDFORD, MK40 4HR
ODS code E81021
2.5 km
ASHBURNHAM ROAD SURGERY
8 ASHBURNHAM ROAD, BEDFORD, MK40 1DS
ODS code E81615
2.7 km
LINDEN ROAD SURGERY
13 LINDEN ROAD, BEDFORD, MK40 2DQ
ODS code E81060
3.6 km
THE DE PARYS GROUP
ENHANCED SERVICES CENTRE, BEDFORD HEALTH VILLAGE, 3 KIMBOLTON ROAD, BEDFORD, MK40 2NT
ODS code E81037
3.7 km
THE VALE MEDICAL PRACTICE
WOOTTON VALE HLTH LIV CTR, FIELDS ROAD, WOOTTON, BEDFORD, MK43 9JJ
ODS code Y00560
3.7 km
GOLDINGTON AVENUE SURGERY
85 GOLDINGTON AVENUE, BEDFORD, MK40 3DB
ODS code E81047
4.0 km
BEDOC HEALTHCARE
UNIT 16, STEPHENSON COURT, FRASER ROAD, BEDFORD, MK44 3WJ
ODS code Y06153
4.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Interchange Park
BCT · Kempston
- 0.2 miles
Elstow Park and Ride
BCT · Elstow
- 0.2 miles
The Mullberry Bush
BCT · Kempston
- 0.3 miles
The Mullberry Bush
BCT · Kempston
- 0.3 miles
The Fire Station
BCT · Kempston
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Bedford 018E, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
7 of 10
Overall England rank
23,188 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Evidence in context
Schools
54 open schools are in scope, including 30 primary and 9 secondary schools. Springfield Primary School is the nearest published school at 302 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
2,281 published events cover 12 months, averaging 190.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 766 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.